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Art Subject: Men
Male Bust - Bronze Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj - 1991
Male Bust - Bronze Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj - 1991

Male Bust - Bronze Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj - 1991

By Igor Mitoraj

Located in Roma, IT

Amazing male bronze bust with a black patina. This work is the 6th from an edition of eight. Its creator, Igor Mitoraj, is a polish sculptor deeply rooted in the classical tradition....

Category

1990s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Georgian Contemporary Art by Gia Khutsishvili - Garcia Lorca Theatre

Georgian Contemporary Art by Gia Khutsishvili - Garcia Lorca Theatre

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on wooden board Gia Khutsishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 18, 1966, into a family of artists. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. Sinc...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Les Banderillas

Les Banderillas

By Pablo Picasso

Located in New York, NY

This original lithograph in black ink was created by the artist in 1961. From A Los Toros avec Picasso, this lithograph is dated 6.3.61.IV in the stone and measures 10 x 13 in. (25.4...

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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Abraham Lincoln Raising the American Flag Impressionist painting
Abraham Lincoln Raising the American Flag Impressionist painting

Abraham Lincoln Raising the American Flag Impressionist painting

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Cifford Benton (1893-1974) Abraham Lincoln at Independence Hall (Lincoln Raising the Flag), ca. 1930 after the original 1908 painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). Oil on...

Category

1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Dior Boutique in Paris (1953) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Dior Boutique in Paris (1953) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Located in London, GB

Cary In Rain (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images) 29th August 1953: A model wearing a muff and suit outside Christian Dior's boutiq...

Category

1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Ricqlès pour une sorcière, Oil Painting, Figurative, Contemporary Realism
Ricqlès pour une sorcière, Oil Painting, Figurative, Contemporary Realism

Ricqlès pour une sorcière, Oil Painting, Figurative, Contemporary Realism

By Jade Boissin

Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork and Unique Work. Medium : Oil painting on naturel wood panel. Artist : Jade Boissin Subject : Ricqlès pour une sorcière (FR -Title) Ri...

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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Brown Horse) Animals, 2006 - Black and White Equine Photography

Untitled (Brown Horse) Animals, 2006 - Black and White Equine Photography

By Giacomo Brunelli

Located in Brighton, GB

Untitled (Brown Horse) from the series Animals is a black and white Silver Gelatin print by Giacomo Brunelli, in this size of 10" x 8" in a limited edition of 10. This is a limited ...

Category

Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Black and White

1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist

1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist

Located in New York, NY

Mystery Artist Tennessee, 9/12/86 Oil on canvas 34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in. Titled and inscribed upper left

Category

1980s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Francisco de Asís
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Francisco de Asís

Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Francisco de Asís

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco del siglo xix en madera estucada y policromada (el marco presenta algún leve descolche) El es...

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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Anthony Bourdain drinks a beer by Jake Chessum

Anthony Bourdain drinks a beer by Jake Chessum

By Jake Chessum

Located in Austin, TX

Anthony Bourdain drinks a beer in a New York bar during a photoshoot with photographer Jake Chessum in 2008. The photo is printed on Fuji crystal archive paper Available in the foll...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Antique  Dutch School original oil painting on canvas, Genre scene, Gold Frame
Antique  Dutch School original oil painting on canvas, Genre scene, Gold Frame

Antique Dutch School original oil painting on canvas, Genre scene, Gold Frame

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This captivating antique oil painting on canvas is a fine example of Dutch School genre art, evoking the style of the 17th-century master Adriaen van Ostade. The composition features...

Category

Mid-19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 5/6 - Bronze Sculpture
When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 5/6 - Bronze Sculpture

When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 5/6 - Bronze Sculpture

Located in Riga, LV

Dimensions: 40 W x 45 H x 10 D cm Weight: 5 kg Material: Bronze, patina, metal Edition: 5/6 + 1 AP, signed on base Condition: Excellent, certificate Free worldwide shipping in a bran...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

1965 NYC Shopping Couple, Black and White Photorealist Photograph
1965 NYC Shopping Couple, Black and White Photorealist Photograph

1965 NYC Shopping Couple, Black and White Photorealist Photograph

Located in Slovak Republic, SK

The picture is an edition ( Edit. of 50) and part of a book about NYC, which Kallay done in 1965 for a German book publisher.

Category

1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Original 'The U. S. Marines Want You' vintage military recruiting poster
Original 'The U. S. Marines Want You' vintage military recruiting poster

Original 'The U. S. Marines Want You' vintage military recruiting poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage poster: The U.S. Marines Want You. This military vintage poster is archival linen-backed and in fine condition, ready to frame. There is no date, artist, or printer'...

Category

1910s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Duck Race, Schloss Schoenbrunn, Vienna - black and white landscape photography
Duck Race, Schloss Schoenbrunn, Vienna - black and white landscape photography

Duck Race, Schloss Schoenbrunn, Vienna - black and white landscape photography

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11184 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Mid Century Modern Jazz Ensemble -- The Band Box Quartet, Signed
Mid Century Modern Jazz Ensemble -- The Band Box Quartet, Signed

Mid Century Modern Jazz Ensemble -- The Band Box Quartet, Signed

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century Modern Jazz Quartet Figurative -- "The Band Box" Signed A vivid, mid-century modernist interpretation of a jazz ensemble by Louis M. Centofanti (American, 1921-2018). "B...

Category

1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 6/6 - Bronze Sculpture
When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 6/6 - Bronze Sculpture

When Lambs Become Lions. Limited Edition 6/6 - Bronze Sculpture

Located in Riga, LV

Dimensions: 34 W x 34 H x 15 D cm Weight: 6 kg Material: Bronze, patina, metal Edition: 6/6 + 1 AP, signed on base Condition: Excellent, certificate Free worldwide shipping in a bra...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

"Samuel the Buffalo" - Acrylic on Canvas
"Samuel the Buffalo" - Acrylic on Canvas

"Samuel the Buffalo" - Acrylic on Canvas

By Melinda McLeod

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Melinda has studied life and its movements, developing a remarkably keen artistic technique with her flowing expressionistic style. Growing up in the Midwest she was enamored with n...

Category

2010s Pop Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Roman Bronze Sculpture - 19th Century Mythological Group - The Farnese Bull
Roman Bronze Sculpture - 19th Century Mythological Group - The Farnese Bull

Roman Bronze Sculpture - 19th Century Mythological Group - The Farnese Bull

Located in Varmo, IT

Bronze sculptural group - The Farnese Bull (The Punishment of Dirce) - Rome, 19th century. 39.5 x 39.5 x h 54 cm. Technique in brief: Sculptural group in cast and chased bronze, br...

Category

1850s Old Masters Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bruce Springsteen: Pop Art Style, Contemporary Figurative Painting
Bruce Springsteen: Pop Art Style, Contemporary Figurative Painting

Bruce Springsteen: Pop Art Style, Contemporary Figurative Painting

By Federico Lopez

Located in Atlanta, GA

This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery. Federico López Córcoles was born in the Alicante region of Spain in 1970. This area is well-known for ...

Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Adoration of the Magi"
"Adoration of the Magi"

"Adoration of the Magi", XVI Century

$65,924Sale Price|20% Off

"Adoration of the Magi"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Attributed to Francesco Mazza, called "Il Parmigianino" (1503-1540) – "Adoration of the Magi" Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 88 x 134 cm (unframed), 205 x 149 cm (framed) Proven...

Category

16th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Baden Baden, Casino
Baden Baden, Casino

Baden Baden, Casino

By LeRoy Neiman

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

A Journey - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colorful

A Journey - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colorful

By Monika Rossa

Located in Warsaw, PL

MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

After Rubens (1577-1640) - 19th Century Oil, The Descent from the Cross
After Rubens (1577-1640) - 19th Century Oil, The Descent from the Cross

After Rubens (1577-1640) - 19th Century Oil, The Descent from the Cross

Located in Corsham, GB

A fine copy after Peter Paul Rubens' (1577-1640) *Descent from the Cross*, the central panel from a triptych created for the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium. The compositio...

Category

19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Structure Study I by Murray Duncan, Abstract Geometric, Mixed Media on Paper
Structure Study I by Murray Duncan, Abstract Geometric, Mixed Media on Paper

Structure Study I by Murray Duncan, Abstract Geometric, Mixed Media on Paper

By Murray Duncan

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Title: Structure Study I By Murray Duncan Mixed media on paper Size: 32" × 44" Unframed, signed Bold gestural brushstrokes sweep across a warm monochromatic ground, reducing abstra...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Glaze, Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Pencil

Circa 1890 original poster José Tinchant y Gonzales & Cie La Flor de Don José
Circa 1890 original poster José Tinchant y Gonzales & Cie La Flor de Don José

Circa 1890 original poster José Tinchant y Gonzales & Cie La Flor de Don José

Located in PARIS, FR

The circa 1890 original poster titled "José Tinchant y Gonzales & Cie La Flor de Don José Anvers" is a vibrant and detailed example of late 19th-century commercial art. Created to ad...

Category

1890s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Christ
Christ

Christ

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Christ MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 62/125 MEASUREMENTS: 25.5" x 19.75" YEAR: 1964 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excellent RE...

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

19th Century Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar on Stone Base
19th Century Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar on Stone Base

19th Century Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar on Stone Base

Located in Beachwood, OH

Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar, 19th Century Patinated bronze mounted to stone base Unsigned 11.25 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman. A member o...

Category

19th Century Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Bronze

Ave Maria
Ave Maria

Ave Maria

By Dasha Pogodina

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK "In 'Ave Maria' from my 'Madeleine' series, I del...

Category

2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

BOYS WILL BE BOYS original art Paula Craioveanu Male Nude in Florida
BOYS WILL BE BOYS original art Paula Craioveanu Male Nude in Florida

BOYS WILL BE BOYS original art Paula Craioveanu Male Nude in Florida

By Paula Craioveanu

Located in Forest Hills, NY

“Boys will be Boys”, male nude, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper, 27.5x19.5in, 70x50cm. Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed, from Florida. . Choose between express or standa...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper

Relining Nude (WG6)
Relining Nude (WG6)

Relining Nude (WG6)

By Waylande Gregory

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Waylande Gregory (1905-1971). Nude Reclining, ca. 1950's. Painted composite cast from original sculpted in 1930's. Casting sanctioned and approved by the artist during his lifetime in partnership with MPI, Museum Pieces Incorporated. Very few examples were produced and even fewer survive. Waylande Gregory was considered a major American sculptor during the 1930's, although he worked in ceramics, rather than in the more traditional bronze or marble. Exhibiting his ceramic works at such significant American venues for sculpture as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and at the venerable Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he also showed his ceramic sculptures at leading New York City galleries. Gregory was the first modern ceramist to create large scale ceramic sculptures, some measuring more than 70 inches in height. Similar to the technique developed by the ancient Etruscans, he fired his monumental ceramic sculptures only once. Gregory was born in 1905 in Baxter Springs, Kansas and was something of a prodigy. Growing up on a ranch near a Cherokee reservation, Gregory first became interested in ceramics as a child during a native American burial that he had witnessed. He was also musically inclined. In fact, his mother had been a concert pianist and had given her son lessons. At eleven, he was enrolled as a student at the Kansas State Teacher's College, where he studied carpentry and crafts, including ceramics. Gregory's early development as a sculptor was shaped by the encouragement and instruction of Lorado Taft, who was considered both a major American sculptor as well as a leading American sculpture instructor. In fact, Taft's earlier students included such significant sculptors as Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Janet Scudder. But, Taft and his students had primarily worked in bronze or stone, not in clay; and, Gregory's earliest sculptural works were also not in ceramics. In 1924, Gregory moved to Chicago where he caught the attention of Taft. Gregory was invited by Taft to study with him privately for 18 months and to live and work with him at his famed "Midway Studios." The elegant studio was a complex of 13 rooms that overlooked a courtyard. Taft may have been responsible for getting the young man interested in creating large scale sculpture. However, by the 1920's, Taft's brand of academic sculpture was no longer considered progressive. Instead, Gregory was attracted to the latest trends appearing in the United States and Europe. In 1928 he visited Europe with Taft and other students. "Kid Gregory," as he was called, was soon hired by Guy Cowan, the founder of the Cowan Pottery in Cleveland, Ohio, to become the company's only full time employee. From 1928 to 1932, Gregory served as the chief designer and sculptor at the Cowan Pottery. Just as Gregory learned about the process of creating sculpture from Taft, he literally learned about ceramics from Cowan. Cowan was one of the first graduates of Alfred, the New York School of Clayworking and Ceramics. Alfred had one of the first programs in production pottery. Cowan may have known about pottery production, but he had limited sculptural skills, as he was lacking training in sculpture. The focus of the Cowan Pottery would be on limited edition, table top or mantle sculptures. Two of the most successful of these were Gregory's Nautch Dancer, and his Burlesque Dancer. He based both sculptures on the dancing of Gilda Gray, a Ziegfield Follies girl. Gilda Gray was of Polish origin and came to the United States as a child. By 1922, she would become one of the most popular stars in the Follies. After losing her assets in the stock market crash of 1929, she accepted other bookings outside of New York, including Cleveland, which was where Gregory first saw her onstage. She allowed Gregory to make sketches of her performances from the wings of the theatre. She explained to Gregory, "I'm too restless to pose." Gray became noted for her nautch dance, an East Indian folk dance. A nautch is a tight, fitted dress that would curl at the bottom and act like a hoop. This sculpture does not focus on Gray's face at all, but is more of a portrait of her nautch dance. It is very curvilinear, really made of a series of arches that connect in a most feminine way. Gregory created his Burlesque Dancer at about the same time as Nautch Dancer. As with the Nautch Dancer, he focused on the movements of the body rather than on a facial portrait of Gray. Although Gregory never revealed the identity of his model for Burlesque Dancer, a clue to her identity is revealed in the sculpture's earlier title, Shimmy Dance. The dancer who was credited for creating the shimmy dance was also Gilda Gray. According to dance legend, Gray introduced the shimmy when she sang the Star Spangled Banner and forgot some of the lyrics, so, in her embarrassment, started shaking her shoulders and hips but she did not move her legs. Such movement seems to relate to the Burlesque Dancer sculpture, where repeated triangular forms extend from the upper torso and hips. This rapid movement suggests the influence of Italian Futurism, as well as the planar motion of Alexander Archipenko, a sculptor whom Gregory much admired. The Cowan Pottery was a victim of the great depression, and in 1932, Gregory changed careers as a sculptor in the ceramics industry to that of an instructor at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook was perhaps the most prestigious place to study modern design in America. Its faculty included the architect Eliel Saarinen and sculptor Carl Milles. Although Gregory was only at Cranbrook for one and one half years, he created some of his finest works there, including his Kansas Madonna. But, after arriving at Cranbrook, the Gregory's had to face emerging financial pressures. Although Gregory and his wife were provided with complimentary lodgings, all other income had to stem from the sale of artworks and tuition from students that he, himself, had to solicit. Gregory had many people assisting him with production methods at the Cowan Pottery, but now worked largely by himself. And although he still used molds, especially in creating porcelain works, many of his major new sculptures would be unique and sculpted by hand, as is true of Kansas Madonna. The scale of Gregory's works were getting notably larger at Cranbrook than at Cowan. Gregory left the surface of Kansas Madonna totally unglazed. Although some might object to using a religious title to depict a horse nursing its colt, it was considered one of Gregory's most successful works. In fact, it had a whole color page illustration in an article about ceramic sculpture titled, "The Art with the Inferiority Complex," Fortune Magazine, December, 1937. The article notes the sculpture was romantic and expressive and the sculpture was priced at $1,500.00; the most expensive sculpture...

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1950s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise
Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

By Jacob de Gheyn II

Located in Middletown, NY

An image from a 17th-century military drill manual depicting techniques for handling muskets and pikes. De Ghen II, Jacques / Jacob Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spies...

Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving

Adoracion (Adoration) Monochromatic Collography Print, 39.25x29.75 in
Adoracion (Adoration) Monochromatic Collography Print, 39.25x29.75 in

Adoracion (Adoration) Monochromatic Collography Print, 39.25x29.75 in

By Belkis Ayon

Located in Columbia, MO

Belkis Ayón Manso A groundbreaking printmaker and mixed-media artist, Belkis Ayón Manso (Cuban, 1967–1999) is celebrated for her powerful, haunting works that delve into Afro-Cuban ...

Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Au Vieux Sculpteur au Travail I (Old Sculptor at Work I) Bloch 157; Baer 224.B.b
Au Vieux Sculpteur au Travail I (Old Sculptor at Work I) Bloch 157; Baer 224.B.b

Au Vieux Sculpteur au Travail I (Old Sculptor at Work I) Bloch 157; Baer 224.B.b

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Au Vieux Sculpteur au Travail I (Old Sculptor at Work I), c. 1933 Medium: Etching on Montval Laid Paper with Vollard Watermark Edition: Edition of 260 Artwork Size: 10.5 x 7.6 in Framed Size: 28.5 x 24.25 x 1.5 in This work is Framed Etching on Montval Paper, from the Vollard Suite, c. 1933 Image Size: 10.5 x 7.6 inches From the small margins edition at 260 proofs, unsigned Published by Vollard, Paris Printed by Lacourière, Paris Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite...

Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

'The Conversation Piece', oil on canvas signed Isaac Tarkay. Framed
'The Conversation Piece', oil on canvas signed Isaac Tarkay. Framed

'The Conversation Piece', oil on canvas signed Isaac Tarkay. Framed

By Itzchak Tarkay

Located in St. Albans, GB

Itzchak Tarkay Isaac Tarkay (1935 - 2012) Signed bottom right Picture Size: 40 x 32(99 x 80cm) Outside Frame Size: 49 x 41" (121 x 102cm) The great appeal of Tarkay’s work has been...

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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flemish School, Oil on Panel – Interior Scene with Figures
Flemish School, Oil on Panel – Interior Scene with Figures

Flemish School, Oil on Panel – Interior Scene with Figures

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Charming 19th-century oil on panel attributed to the Flemish School, anonymous artist. This work depicts an intimate interior scene with several figures engaged in daily life, charac...

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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Self-portrait, German school, 1933. August Hirsching (1889-1962)
Self-portrait, German school, 1933. August Hirsching (1889-1962)

Self-portrait, German school, 1933. August Hirsching (1889-1962)

Located in Firenze, IT

Self-portrait, 1933 August Hirsching (Unterheimbach / Weinberg 1889 – Stuttgart 1962) Oil on board, 60 × 44.5 cm Signed and dated 1933. Inscribed on the reverse: Früh Sommer 1933 – ...

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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Veracruz Mexico Pre-Columbian ceramic Warrior figure sculpture
Veracruz Mexico Pre-Columbian ceramic Warrior figure sculpture

Veracruz Mexico Pre-Columbian ceramic Warrior figure sculpture

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Figure of a Chanting Warrior Ceramic with bitumen highlights 300-600 CE (Classic Period) Mexico, Veracruz, possibly Nopiloa Veracruz Culture Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Vera Cruz culture...

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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic